Kay Embretsen Spoon Knife No. 3 is an exclusive hand-forged knife. A knife to carve the bowl of spoons. Spoon Knife No. 3 is probably the standard curve suited to excavating wood in most spoon bowls. Now hollow-ground on the inside of the blade to make sharpening even easier.
Available in the following versions:
- Standard Handle - Right Grind; comes with a new designed premium leather hand stitched sheath made by Kay Embretsen. Darker,
- Standard Handle - Left Grind; comes with a simple Woodsmith wrapped goat leather edge protector
- Right and Left Set - offers a 10% discount rather than buying each knife separately, please note the edge protection differences described above.
Please note the long handled versions pictured are currently not available:
- Long Handle - Right Grind
- Long Handle - Left Grind
Right-handed carvers will use the right grind knife towards themselves and the Left grind knife away from themselves. Vice-versa for left-handed carvers. Regardless of your dominant hand, its better to have both a Right and a Left grind knife. Kay Embretsen Spoon Knife No.3 has a hand forged blade in high carbon steel. Approx. 45 mm long, 10mm wide. Please note these are hand made tools and slight variations will present themselves between knives.
The Short Handled version is made from exquisite Masur birch, lightly oiled to show the figure. Longitudinal facets ensure a comfortable firm grip. Handle length: 130mm (5″). Please note, Kay has used different types of Masur Birch to differentiate between the left and right - but are both made from the same species.
Masur Birch is not a particular species of birch but is rather a grain figure that is most commonly seen in Downy Birch and Silver Birch. It is also sometimes known as Karelian Birch—with Karelia being a region between Finland and Russia. Once surmised to have been caused by the boring larvae of a certain beetle, Masur Birch in Norway has been shown to be hereditary, classifying the name of the variant as Betula pendula var. Carelica. Regardless of the exact cause and makeup of the peculiar grain pattern, the resulting figure and appearance is very similar to burl wood or Birdseye Maple, though of a different origin.
About Kay Embretsen
Kay Embretsen has been a full-time knife maker since 1983. The maker of an exclusive range of traditional Scandinavian knives including the carving knives that Woodsmith proudly stock. He is internationally renowned for beautiful and durable knives with a fastidious attention to detail.
He lives and works in mid Sweden.
